Christopher Anderson
Dec 04, 2018
2 minutes
Sara Knelman
At the beginning of Albert Lamorisse’s 1956 short film, (), a young boy, played by the director’s real-life son, rescues a lone red balloon from the top of a Parisian lamppost. The balloon, like a friendly ghost, carries him, and us, whimsically through the city
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